Posts tagged "JavaScript"
The module pattern in JavaScript
Ben Cherry of Adequately Good explains JavaScript's module pattern. This pattern is everywhere in modern JavaScript codebases, and Ben does a great job of explaining it clearly and concisely.
target="_blank" for XHTML Strict
For better or for worse, it's a widespread convention for offsite links to open in a new window. This is usually achieved by setting the attribute target="_blank" on the link in question.
Of course, the target attribute is illegal in XHTML Strict—so this bit of functionality of will invalidate your pages.
I whipped up a simple fix to this problem. Here's the demo and download page.
JavaScript Standard Library 1.8+
I just came across Andrea Giammarchi's JavaScript Standard Library, a ≈2.7KB library which transparently adds JavaScript 1.6 methods (mostly the new Array stuff) to browsers which don't support them natively.
Surprisingly, this is the first library I've seen whose sole purpose is JavaScript version compatibility. Andrea says it provides "a quite totally standard environment", and offers some unit tests.
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